Originally Posted by abbycats
Olive is very pretty!She looks like a silver tabby in her photo.
according to the kitten color predictor, this is the outcome: boys - black/blue/black tabby/blue tabby/seal point/blue point/seal lynx point/blue lynx pointOriginally Posted by Lindsey88
Thanks guys. When she was a baby and I saw her I just had to have her she was just so precious. Sophie is her sister. Just wondering the daddy of her babies was blue I believe. What could the outcome be?
not to my knowledge. check here: messy beastOriginally Posted by Lindsey88
I was asking here because her color wasn't on the kitten color predictor. Is the silver tabby a dilute color?
The longhair gene is recessive - in order for a cat to be longhair they have to have BOTH genes (homozygous) to show it. So even when a longhair queen has kittens, you can not get a longhair cat unless the dad was at_least a carrier of the gene. Although... all their offspring would then be guaranteed to be carriers.Originally Posted by Lindsey88
This genetics stuff is so interesting. If Olive has a longhaired silver tabby kitten or longhaired blue kitten I might just have to keep it.
Hehehe - you posted as I was still typing.Originally Posted by Lindsey88
Dad was a blue longhair.
GoldenKitty, I'm a huge genetics buff myself - but only virtually. Can you tell me how do you tell the difference between a silver tabby and a blue tabby? How can you tell that Olive is silver and not just blue? I was trying to get some [quick] explanations online, but I only ran across something briefly about undercoat and hairbanding.Originally Posted by GoldenKitty45
Silver is not a dilute of any color - the gold/silver gene is totally separate. If the dad is a blue, you can get blue-silvers. Some breeds have that; maine coons, wegies, and ocicats.
I'm still learning about the Oci colors as its a little different since you are blending in ruddy/red (but not true red), cinnamon, blue, fawn, chocolates from the 4 Siamese colors and the Aby colors. Then you throw in the silver gene to create more colors.